Works by Archibald Thorburn from the Thorburn Museum.
Sotheby's, 1993. Octavo, oblong format, colour illustrations, softcover. More
Sotheby's, 1993. Octavo, oblong format, colour illustrations, softcover. More
Washington D C: Smithsonian Exposition Books, 1978. Quarto, colour photographs, dustwrapper. Various accounts of scientific field work of the Smithsonian Institution. More
New York: Sterling Publishing, 2012. Quarto, paperback, colour illustrations. This book allows readers a privileged glimpse of seldom seen, fully illustrated scientific tomes from the American Museum of Natural History's Rare Book Collection. Forty essays from the museum's top experts in a variety of natural science disciplines, from anthropology to..... More
Sofia: Pensoft, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. Zoo Keys 209. Centuries of exploration and discovery have documented the diversity of life on Earth. Records of this biodiversity are, for the most part, distributed across varied and distinct natural history collections worldwide. This makes the task of extracting and mobilising the..... More
London: British Museum, 1893-1896. Octavo, 73 uncoloured lithographs. Publisher's cloth, some slight wear primarily to the top of the spine of volume three which has a split along the upper edge, library accession numbers in a copperplate hand on the title pages and endpapers, a very good set, scarce. Belgium..... More
Khartoum: Sudan Government Museum (Natural History), 1926-1931. Octavo, publisher's wrappers, a very good set. Part one: Struthionidae to Picidae. Part two: Alaudidae to Fringillidae. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1954. Small octavo, text illustrations, signature, printed stiff card covers. More
Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1991. Octavo, , fine copy in dustwrapper. The chapters in the volume provide a general overview as well as addressing specific topics concerning the roles and functions of natural history museums. More
Honolulu: Bishop Museum Occasional Papers No. 51, 1997. Octavo, softcover. More
Melbourne: Museum Victoria, 2004. Octavo, colour photographs, a fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1988. Quarto, wrappers, short tear at the bottom of the first page. More
Croydon: Australian Deer Research Foundation, 1994. Quarto, illustrations, sotfcover. More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1930. Octavo, signature, owner's stamp, publisher's cloth. More
Adelaide: Board of the Botanic Gardens & State Herbarium, 2010. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. This beautiful book captures the life, history and restoration of what is possibly the last museum of its kind in the world. With 33 outstanding contributors the insightful essays and lavish illustrations will intrigue and fascinate..... More
Newcastle: T. and J. Hodgson, 1827. Octavo, text illustrations, bookplate, binder's cloth. More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999. Quarto, 200 colour plates, other illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Every aspect of the Great Auk's natural - and unnatural - history is covered, with special chapters devoted to its life cycle and the years during which it dwindled to extinction. Other chapters concern..... More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1883. Octavo, nine handcoloured plates by Smit. Publisher's cloth, some wear, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps. Volume eight from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1987. Octavo, illustrations, softcover. More
New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Volume 123, Article 1, 1961. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, other illustrations. Over the centuries, natural history museums have evolved from being little more than musty repositories of stuffed animals and pinned bugs, to being crucial generators of new scientific knowledge. They have also become vibrant educational centers, full of..... More
London: British Museum, 1874. Octavo, 30 uncoloured lithographs. Publisher's brown cloth, a fine crisp copy. More
London: British Museum, 1874. Octavo, 30 uncoloured lithographs. Publisher's brown cloth, spine badly split with pieces missing, ex-library, scarce. More
London: British Museum, 1850. Octavo, text illustrations. Original plain blue wrappers, detached and split. More
London: British Museum, 1855. Quarto, 42 uncoloured lithographs. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards, some blemishes, top edge gilt, a presentation copy dated 1885 from P. L. Sclater to the Rev. G. R. Fisk, small neat library stamps on title page and plates, a fine copy. John Edward Gray (1800-1875)..... More
London: British Museum, 1850-1852. Octavo, 37 uncoloured lithographs. Early quarter cloth with blue papered boards, titles on spine, all contained in a handsome modern solander box, very scarce. Part one: Cetacea. Part two: Seals. Part three: Ungulata Furcipeda. More